On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Michael Sharp wrote: > Right, but I wonder how hard it would be to trick a computer into thinking > a chunk of ram was drive E: (or whatever)? I thought we were talking about Linux here. All you do is compile in ramdisk support (or insert the ramdisk module) and mount /dev/ram0 somewhere. Or, more likely in this case, you would use the initrd facility to store a compressed root FS in an image on the CD, and Linux would then decompress it onto /dev/initrd automatically which you can them mount as / Why not grab a copy of tomsrtbt and have a play with that? > Does the Sony MD support data writing/reading? No. --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. -------------- : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham : -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ -------------------- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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